Meetings with Momentum

Elevate your meetings with tailored fitness experiences

In life, as in sport, it’s not always how fast you go but how you arrive. The journey matters. And for today’s meeting planner, the journey matters more than most. Ensuring an active and alert audience throughout your meetings makes all the difference in attendee satisfaction scores and overall meetings success.

The Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk partners with two-time Chicago Golden Gloves Champion and National Winner of the Men’s Health Next Top Trainer competition, Gideon Akande, to create its own very special approach to meetings.

In and out of the gym, Gideon focuses on helping to motivate people to be at their best. For the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, he provides highly tailored fitness experiences for groups. The offerings are compelling for any organization with a health and wellness component or for any business looking to elevate its meetings game to go the distance.

Gideon’s range of activities include city walks, runs, stretches, boxing and circuit workouts, among many other types of fitness options. Because no two meetings are alike and the needs of groups vary widely, he provides indepth consultation to create a program that works for the goals and constraints of any group. The property’s unique features offer waterfront or skyline views – an inspiring location helps create a special synergy.

Beyond the curated offerings that Gideon provides to Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk meeting professionals, he is committed to the greater wellness community. For the Sheraton, he created partnerships with locally owned wellness brands that range from Lume Wellness Spa in Chicago to Lululemon and has been instrumental in curating the hotel’s “Finish Line Festival,” which is a running inspired event that is presented around the Chicago Marathon.

Whether your meeting is a high impact annual or low impact gathering, there is an increasing expectation that organizers will stay mindful of attendees’ holistic needs. Now more than ever, meetings focus on how you feel as much as what you learn.

The Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk considers Gideon is its coach in the corner to help you design your next meeting with momentum.